THE WORKS OF THOMAS MOORE, COMPREHENDING ALL HIS MELODIES, BALLADS, ETC. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED WITHOUT THE ACCOMPANYING MUSIC. VOL. VIII. PARIS: PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI, AT THE FRENCH, ENGLISH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH LIBRARY, CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII. RHYMES ON THE ROAD. Dedication Page ix xi Introductory Rhymes. Different attitudes in which authors compose.-Bayes, Henry Stephens, Herodotus, etc.-Writing in bed-in the fields.-Plato and Sir Richard Blackmore.-Fiddling with gloves and twigs.-Madame de Staël. -Rhyming on the road in an old calèche EXTRACT I. View of the Lake of Geneva from the Jura.Anxious to reach it before the sun went down.- Obliged to proceed on foot.-Alps.-Mont Blanc.-Effect of the 5 13 EXTRACT II. The Fall of Venice not to be lamented.-Former glory.-Expedition against Constantinople.-Guistinianis.-Republic.-Characteristics of the old Government. Golden book.-Brazen mouths.-Spies-dungeons.-Present desolation 17 22 EXTRACT III. Lord B- 's Memoirs, written by himself.- EXTRACT V. 26 28 EXTRACT VI. Reflexions on reading De Cerceau's account of the Conspiracy of Rienzi, in 1347.-The meeting of the Conspirators on the night of the 19th of May.—Their procession in the morning to the Capitol.-Rienzi's speech. 32 |